4 teens face charges in high school bomb hoax

Published: Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 10:11 a.m. CST

By Sally Ho — Chicago Tribune

(MCT) — Four teenagers face criminal charges after authorities said they called in a phony bomb threat to Hoffman Estates High School on Wednesday in hopes of getting a group of students out of class for the day.

Police said the incident could be connected to another bomb hoax at Lake Park High School's East Campus in Roselle the same day.

Sharell M. Thomas, 18, of the 7500 block of Bristol Lane in Hanover Park, who authorities said placed a series of calls to the Hoffman Estates school warning that people in the building "will die" if they're not evacuated, was charged with felony disorderly conduct, police said.

Markeisha N. Jones, 18, of the same block, was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct in connection to the hoax, police said.

Jones is a student at the school; Thomas is not, Township High School District 211 spokesman Thomas Petersen said.